P. N. Haksar

Other names: 

Purshottam Narayan Haksar

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Date of birth: 
04 Sep 1913
City of birth: 
Gujaranwala
Country of birth: 
India
Current name country of birth: 
Pakistan
Date of death: 
25 Nov 1998
Location of death: 
New Delhi
Location: 

London

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About: 

P.N. Haksar arrived in Britain to study at the London School of Economics. He was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in the early 1940s. In London, he was an active member of Krishna Menon's India League along with other students, which greatly shaped his socialist political outlook. He  befriended Feroze Gandhi and Jawahrlal Nehru's daughter Indira who would later appoint him her principal secretary, a post he held from 1967-73. He was also India's chief negotiator for the talks between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in 1972-3.

Connections: 

Mulk Raj Anand, Feroze Gandhi, Krishna Menon, Indira Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru, Iqbal Singh.

Network: 
Mulk Raj Anand
Organizations: 
India League
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Published works: 

One More Life (Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 1990)

Premonitions (Bombay: Interpress, 1979)

Reflections on our Time (Delhi: Lancers, 1982)

Secondary works: 

Visram, Rozina, Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History (London: Pluto, 2002)